“With the introduction of our value-focused, 3-bit NAND-based eMMC 5.0
line-up, we expect to take the lead in the expansion of high-density
mobile storage,” said Dr. Jung-Bae Lee, Senior Vice President of Memory
Product Planning and Application Engineering Team, Samsung Electronics.
“We are continuing to enhance our next-generation embedded mobile memory
offerings with improved performance and higher densities to meet
increasing customer demand across the mobile industry.”

While flagship smartphones are already transitioning to 128GB memory
storage based on Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 or eMMC 5.1
standards, mid-market smartphones will now be able to increase their
storage capacity to 128GB as well. Samsung’s new 3-bit 128GB eMMC 5.0
memory speeds up this transition as the industry’s highest density eMMC
5.0 solution.

The new 128GB eMMC 5.0 delivers 260 megabytes per second (MB/s) for
sequential data reading, which is the same level of performance as that
of MLC NAND-based eMMC 5.1 memory. For random data read and write
operations, it can handle up to 6,000 IOPS (input/output operations per
second) and 5,000 IOPS, respectively, which is sufficient for supporting
high definition video processing and advanced multi-tasking features.
These IOPS speeds are approximately four and 10 times faster,
respectively, than those of a typical external memory card.

With the new 3-bit eMMC 5.0 line-up, Samsung has extended its 3-bit NAND
business from SSDs for data centers, servers and PCs to the entire
mobile memory storage market. Samsung will continue to broaden its
application of 3-bit NAND Flash memory by developing higher-performance
and higher-density solutions, as well as strengthening the
competitiveness of its memory business.

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